Private Pharocloud Smalltalk source code repository

How to run a private Smalltalk source code repository on Pharocloud is explained here.

Package Dependencies Analysis in Pharo with new features

Package Dependencies Analysis in Pharo has new features. Read more

Smart Breakpoints alpha Release

The first release of SmartBreakpoints for Pharo.

ScienceSmalltalk v0.12

There is a new release of SciSmalltalk v 0.12 (written in Pharo Smalltalk) available. Also check out the project page on GitHub.

Beside many others you can use it for mathematical epidemiology modeling, look here for a quick start example on how to obtain the numerical solution of a simple one-dimensional Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) and visualizing results using Graph-ET.

Essence# Invoking .NET with out/ref parameters

A detailed story on invoking .NET methods that have “out” or “ref” parameters from Essence#, a Smalltalk for .NET platform.

Improved refactorings

More improvements on the refactoring side of life.

Fun with Pharo (when writing books)

Beside the Pharo by Example, Deep into Pharo and the Pharo Enterprise book (available on CI, GitHub and as PDF) there is now also the idea of a book about "funny" things like implementing games in Pharo.

Therefore a new clone of the Pharo by Example book was created with the name "Fun with Pharo". The book is built on CI, the books source is hosted on GitHub and currently it includes already infos on how to build a digital Tamagotchi with Smalltalk or how the PhlappyBird game works.

The PDF for "Fun with Pharo" is already available.

If you want to contribute you should have a look and learn about Pillar and I would recommend to use either Online PillarHub or the new one-click image for PillarHub that you can run locally to write an own chapter.

Pharo Consortium 2014 Annual Report

The Pharo 2014 Annual Report of the Pharo consortium (http://consortium.pharo.org) is available here:

https://pharoweekly.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/2014-06-report.pdf

Ephestos

A small demonstration of Ephestos , a communication bridge between Pharo and Blender.
Code is on SmalltalkHub - but actually it is only a simple methodn on the Pharo side:

sendMessage: aString
   |stream|
   stream := SocketStream openConnectionToHostNamed: '127.0.0.1'  port: 4000 .
   stream sendCommand: aString.
   stream close.

PillarHub

A one click image for PillarHub is available now on CI. You can now run it locally very easy.

Just download (for instance using PharoLauncher), run and check http://localhost:8080

If you still do not know what PillarHub is all about then read this.

PhlappyBird

A Morphic based Flappy Bird clone written in Pharo.

Code is on SmalltalkHub: http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~zeroflag/PhlappyBird

Toronto Smalltalk User Group

The Toronto Smalltalk User Group patio night is Monday, July 14 at Pauper's Pub, on the street level patio. See http://www.smalltalk.ca

Essence#’s Predecessor: Iron Smalltalk

Some more insights into Essence# - another Smalltalk for the .NET environment.

Package Dependencies Analyzer

A new tool for Pharo to check dependencies. Read more.

PBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2) for Pharo

to secure your applications. Move to Udo's blog to read about it.

Systemd socket activation

Max and Nik provide a Pharo VM patch for socket activation. If you run many (Seaside) images - each on an own port - this patch allows you to lower the server load and free up resources for images with a high request rate.

Read all the details here and watch the video:

Elegant Pharo code

Nice article from Sven

SqueakJS 0.2 released, now runs Etoys

The Squeak VM built on top of JavaScript can now also run the Etoys image. Read more.

Working with Smalltalk

New open jobs at Yesplan and Cincom. If you want to work with Smalltalk just contact them.

Circle layout

now in Roassal. See here.

PillarHub

The people behind Pharocloud have implemented an online editor (and storage) for Pillar documents. So you can easily write documents in Swiki syntax that can be translated to different formats (HTML, Latex, PDF)

You can check it out here: http://pillarhub.pharocloud.com/hub/pillarhub/about

You can create an account and add own documentation articles. Source code is on SmalltalkHub.

Cyclades for Pharo 3.0

Cyclades is a pitch set explorer for adn developed in Pharo v3.0

The software has been involved in MIE (music images emotions), a GEM project which explores the emotional link between music and images and focuses on the different types of emotional synchronization and on possible invariants involved in associations. See some screenshots or download from http://cyclades.seasidehosting.st

Amber 0.12.6

just arrived. Read more.